Paris Hilton heads back to jail

Los Angeles -- Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted from a courtroom and sent back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.

"It's not right!" shouted Hilton, who violated her parole in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

The 26-year-old hotel heiress was taken to court handcuffed and in tears from her home in a black-and-white police car, paparazzi sprinting in pursuit and helicopters broadcasting live from above.

"Two or three helicopters were flying all over West Hollywood circulating the area," wrote the vice president of Cleveland native Patricia Heaton's Four Boys Films company in an e-mail. "It felt like there was something ominous that was happening. Unfortunately, they were covering the Hilton event," wrote Anna Kim.

Despite being ordered to serve the remainder of her original 45-day sentence, Hilton could still be released early. Inmates are given a day off their terms for every four days of good behavior, and her days in home detention counted as time served.

She cried throughout the hearing, dabbing her eyes, and her body shook constantly. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by Sheriff Lee Baca's decision to release Hilton three days into her sentence due to an unspecified "medical condition." Rumors about that condition range from an impending nervous breakdown to an unidentified rash.

Indeed, Sauer's original hand-written order ruled out house arrest, community service or any other alternative to doing the time.

The city attorney's office, which had prosecuted Hilton, requested the hearing and wanted Baca held in contempt for releasing her. The judge took no action on that request.

Radaronline.com said that Hilton's grandfather, William Barron Hilton, contributed the maximum $1,000 to Baca in the sheriff's campaign fund last year, but that could not be independently verified.

Online reaction to Hilton's re-incarceration was swift and vitriolic.

A reader of TMZ.com using the name of noted animal rights activist and TV personality Bob Barker, addressed this remark "to stupid parents: 'Help reduce the Paris population by having your spoiled, brain-dead, no talent children spayed or neutered.' "

"Maybe there is hope for this country after all," wrote a reader identified only as "d."

Eight deputies took a screaming Hilton out of the courtroom to a county facility known as the Two Towers. It's likely that she'll spend the weekend in a medical ward there before being transferred back to the Century Regional Facility.

The Century is a far cry from Hilton's luxurious home. Her cell is 12-by-8 feet, and features two bunks with foam mattresses, a sink and a toilet. A Los Angeles Times report noted that the entire cell would fit on the veranda of her four-bedroom, three-bath Spanish-style home, with room left over.

Reporters Chuck Yarborough and Michael Heaton contributed to this story.